As for the environment variables on the remedy server, the following should
be set:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8

These need to be set for the armonitor process.

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Axton <[email protected]> wrote:

> The thing that is probably throwing an error is the NLS_CHARACTERSET.  Here
> are my parameters from a properly configured instance:
>
> PARAMETER                VALUE
> ------------------------ ----------------------------
> NLS_LANGUAGE             AMERICAN
> NLS_TERRITORY            AMERICA
> NLS_CURRENCY             $
> NLS_ISO_CURRENCY         AMERICA
> NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS   .,
> NLS_CALENDAR             GREGORIAN
> NLS_DATE_FORMAT          DD-MON-RR
> NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE        AMERICAN
> NLS_CHARACTERSET         AL32UTF8
> NLS_SORT                 BINARY
> NLS_TIME_FORMAT          HH.MI.SSXFF AM
> NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT     DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
> NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT       HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
> NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT  DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
> NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY        $
> NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET   UTF8
> NLS_COMP                 BINARY
> NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS     BYTE
> NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP      FALSE
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Axton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> LANG and NLS_LANG should definitely be set.  NLS_LANG tells the Oracle
>> client how to encode/decode the data sent to and from the db.  The product
>> documentation covers the proper settings.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Fatima <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ** Hi everyone,
>>> We are upgrading from ARS 6.3 on:
>>> - Solaris 10
>>> - Oracle 9i
>>> - Apache Tomcat 5.5.26
>>> to ARS 7.5 on:
>>> - Solaris 10
>>> - Oracle 10g
>>> - Apache Tomcat 5.5.29
>>>
>>> The Oracle upgrade from 9i to 10g went fine. We upgraded ARS 6.3 to ARS
>>> 7.1 fine.
>>> With the ARS 7.5 patch 5 installer, we get an error indicating that our
>>> underlying database is not Unicode but ARS is configured as Unicode.
>>> Although our database is Unicode, our NLS Parameters are as follows:
>>>
>>> SQL> SELECT * FROM V$NLS_PARAMETERS;
>>>
>>> PARAMETER                                                        VALUE
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> NLS_LANGUAGE                                                     AMERICAN
>>> NLS_TERRITORY                                                    AMERICA
>>> NLS_CURRENCY                                                     $
>>> NLS_ISO_CURRENCY                                                 AMERICA
>>> NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS                                           .,
>>> NLS_CALENDAR
>>> GREGORIAN
>>> NLS_DATE_FORMAT
>>>  DD-MON-RR
>>> NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE                                                AMERICAN
>>> NLS_CHARACTERSET
>>> AR8ISO8859P6
>>> NLS_SORT                                                         BINARY
>>> NLS_TIME_FORMAT
>>>  HH.MI.SSXFF AM
>>> NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT
>>> DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
>>> NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT
>>> HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
>>> NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT
>>>  DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
>>> NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY                                                $
>>> NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET
>>> AL16UTF16
>>> NLS_COMP                                                         BINARY
>>> NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS                                             BYTE
>>> NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP                                              FALSE
>>>
>>> Does anyone know exactly which parameters does the installer check to
>>> know if the database is Unicode or not, so we can ensure they are set
>>> correctly.
>>> The OS LANG and NLS_LANG parameters are not set, do they need to be set
>>> to any specific value?
>>>
>>> The weird thing is that the ARS 7.5 patch 3 installer runs smoothly
>>> without this error, but we prefer to go to patch 5.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Fatima Amin
>>> _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_
>>
>>
>>
>

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